The Coronavirus Has Made Even Beirut Go Quiet

BEIRUT—Before the coronavirus pandemic, most nights the streets in Beirut’s busiest neighborhoods were crammed with honking horns, window-rattling bass beats and the shouts of anticorruption activists marching towards Martyrs’ Sq..

Now, with Covid-similar constraints in put, the town closes up—and quiets down—as the solar sets. The night silence gave way to a new seem: the nasal hum of a surveillance drone—most probably Israeli—circling off Lebanon’s Mediterranean Coastline.

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